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Cutting services, selling lands does not compute

The Republican budget bill offers tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. To pay for those tax cuts, it slashes programs for ordinary citizens and sells off our public lands. The bill cuts sa...

Time for a redo of confusing ART signs

I am writing in regards to Ryan Simonovich’s Action Line (Herald, June 15) concerning the new signs on the Animas River Trail. As someone who was a professor of graphic design/visual commun...

Trump using our lands for donor payoffs

Not since the Reagan era have we seen our public lands, and our national parks threatened with extinction. But here we are. And as a reminder, in the opening days of Reagan’s first term in t...

Great job on No Kings march

Great job. We will never return to Durango to ski or spend a dollar and will work to get Wyndham to close their resort ASAP. Congratulations! Barb D. Selvig Hernando, Florida ...

We can have a democracy or an oligarchy

The decision by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case has made a mockery of the notion of “free speech” by allowing money spent on behalf of a political candidate to be labeled such....

Our military must stop Trump’s abuses

I miss the America I grew up in when presidents were not career criminals or boastful sexual predators and the majority of Republican congresspeople still had backbones. Trump rules with hat...

An(other) open letter to Jeff Hurd

Jeff, I just received your reply to my previous correspondence and I was not pleased with its tenor. So, I wrote this and had it bounce back. Thank you for your “thank you” email. I am conce...

Colorado’s delegation must fight for public lands

Public lands are essential to Colorado’s economy, environment and way of life. They support outdoor recreation, clean air and water, wildlife, grazing and more. In 2023 alone, Colorado’s out...

Evil forces of hate a spiritual cancer

Free speech that willfully promotes hate, is the spark that ignites the flame of evil behavior in a great number of people. We are experiencing this human tragedy in America, and if it conti...

Local input and Rep. Hurd’s double standard

As a Western Slope resident and public policy professional, I’m dismayed by the doublespeak in Rep. Jeff Hurd’s recent op-ed (Herald, Jun. 1) pitching his Productive Public Lands Act – a bil...

Council has the legal authority and moral responsibility to act

As someone who has worked for years with Southwest Colorado’s immigrant and working-class families, I strongly support Durango raising the minimum wage by 15% – the maximum allowed under Col...

Failing infrastructure or Next Step?

On Monday, June 16, the city of Durango will hold a public meeting to inform residents about their plan to change Main Avenue into a dining and lounging street. The meeting is going to be he...
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